Wednesday 31 December 2014

How to use Autopilot -Altitude hold.

In this tutorial i will show you how to use autopilot in fsx.

STEP 1: Start up fsx, choose the default 737-800 that comes with fsx. Choose an airport.










STEP 2: Click F10 on your keyboard. Click on the right side of the button labeled SEL to increase altitude and the left to decrease.










STEP 3: Set your altitude to 8000 like shown in the image, then contact ATC by pressing the "~" button on your keyboard which is located underneath the Esc(escape) key on your keyboard, ask for taxi for takeoff and click straight out departure.
 STEP 4: Start your taxi towards the runaway by following the yellow arrows on the ground and hold short of runaway.









STEP 5: After being cleared to takeoff line up on runaway and do a standard takeoff .











STEP 6: Once you are at around 600 ft put gear and flaps up, click the "Z" button on your keyboard to engage the autopilot which will be represented as a green light under the letters CMDA on your planes panel, to the left of the CMDA button there is a button which says ALT HLD(altitude hold).
click this button with your left mouse button and you plane will climb and maintain that altitude.








Thank you for reading through this tutorial, if you are confused or stuck please tell me what is wrong in the comments an i will gladly help you.

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